Winston Churchill’s hardheaded political realism, as Britain’s wartime leader, meant that he never chose to stand alone, writes Peter Clarke

David Cameron needs to learn historical lessons about the art of empathy, writes Ruth Porter.

This week's Bookbencher is Michael Fallon, MP for Sevenoaks. What book's on your bedside table at the moment? David Abulafia The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (2011) – a magisterial successor to Fernand Braudel’s survey of mare nostrum. What book would you read to your children? Winston Churchill My Early Life (1930) – inspirational. What literary char...

Patrick O'Flynn of the Express traces the history of the Human Rights Act back to Winston Churchill but explains why he wants it to go.

A couple of weeks ago Mitt Romney used Winston Churchill – or his bust, at least – to attack Obama. This week, he used the former Prime Minister to defend his flip-flopping. Or at least, he thought he did. Here's what he told a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday: 'In the private sector, if you don't change your view when the facts change, well you'll ...

Mitt Romney won the Atlanticist vote last night by saying he'd bring back a bust of Winston Churchill into the Oval Office. That's a reference, obviously, to Barack Obama's decision, soon after moving into the White House, to have the bronze removed. That decision caused a lot of bother. When the story broke, the Obama machine insisted that the bust's removal was part of a rout...

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle - Winston Churchill...

Higher education funding in England is, to recycle a Winston Churchill phrase, 'a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. In Scotland, it's all that, but pa

The media is falling over themselves to 'condemn the terrible violence' that Prince Charles and Camilla, and Winston Churchill's statue, were subjected to last week at the student demos. The narrative from the usual suspects is: 'this will only lose the students any support they had'. This is fatuous for many reasons.

An Israeli team experienced an unexpected victory in a debate at the UK's Cambridge University debating the proposition 'Israel is rogue state'. Cambridge University's prestigious debate club was established in 1815 and has seen luminaries like Winston Churchill, the Dalai Lama and Ronald Reagan debate the issues of the day. It's operated by Cambridge's Union Society,...